African Arguments
Friday, April 15, 2016 - 06:40
Al-Shabaab is still launching attacks, donor fatigue is rising, and countless other challenges remain. But there’s no doubt Somalia is moving in the right direction.
Thursday, January 28, 2016 - 05:56
Challenges to President Pierre Nkurunziza’s rule are becoming professionalised, as demonstrated by the attacks on two military camps in Bujumbura last December. Godfroid Nyombare – Nkurunziza’s former chief of secret service and main plotter of the failed coup last May – has reportedly created an armed rebellion. And security forces have started using rape as a weapon of war, signalling their intent to break Bujumbura’s quartiers contestataires psychologically as well as physically.
Thursday, January 7, 2016 - 06:54
In the ‘Exodus from Eritrea’ radio discussion, the BBC World Service began by asking why so many Eritreans are leaving the country.
Friday, October 2, 2015 - 06:23
If the government’s KDF Amendment Bill goes through as planned, Parliament will effectively lose its constitutional oversight of the army.
Thursday, September 24, 2015 - 06:11
U.S. sanctions have not worked and the factors that led to the embargo have changed. A rapprochement would be in both U.S. and Sudanese interests.
Friday, June 5, 2015 - 06:22
15 May 2015 marked the official signing of the long awaited peace and reconciliation agreement between Mali’s government and the Arab and Tuareg rebel groups.
Friday, May 22, 2015 - 05:46
In the face of relentless citizen aspiration for greater political and civil liberties, despotic African rulers are desperate to maintain good relations with their Western partners.
Friday, April 10, 2015 - 06:21
If the world has learned anything about Islamic fundamentalism in the last two decades it is that such revenge actions are utterly counterproductive. Indeed, they have superheated the hatred and fueled further attacks. Kenya’s leaders must take these attacks seriously, understand what they mean and devise smarter strategies and more effective tactics for dealing with them.
Friday, March 27, 2015 - 06:48
Last week President Salva Kiir of South Sudan rejected all the main proposals put forward by the African Union to bring peace to Africa’s newest state. According to the author of the article, "this means war".
Tuesday, January 20, 2015 - 07:38
South Sudan’s vice president Riek Machar was sacked in 2013 and after a political crisis that year, he ended up in the bush leading an armed rebellion that has turned into 13 months of civil war.